A large fridge versus a small fridge

I recently caught myself lamenting about our fridge. The one at my parents’ is huge (more than 500 plus litres) and the one in our apartment is tiny in comparison(300 plus liters) . I’ve found myself staring into each refrigerator, cold air blasting my frowning face. Just when I think about upgrading our tiny fridge to a bigger one, I sigh in relief that we have a smaller one when I’m at my parent’s house.

The first thing that comes to mind is that a large fridge can hold more stuff. That’s a no brainer. However for someone like me who frequently forgets that she bought lettuce a week ago, this can prove detrimental. As I write this, I know that I have 6 green apples that I bought over a year ago, sitting at the bottom of chiller drawer. If I had a larger fridge, there’d be more than just apples, slowly decaying away, giving off musty odors.

Also, I can't’ find anything in a huge fridge. Does anyone else have this problem? I could have sworn I bought cheese the other day and now it’s nowhere to be seen!

A small fridge is economical, it needs less electricity to keep items cool. Not entirely true on my part. Because we have small storage, I need to constantly keep refilling our ice water tumblers. The family loves their chilled H2O, so I find myself repeatedly keeping 3 jugs of recently boiled water in there. That’s not room temperature water, that’s a temperature just below the boiling point, effectively raising the temperature of the whole fridge, making it work harder to cool itself down. If I had a large fridge, I can place rows and rows of water jugs and not have to worry about shortages.

I can’t cook for the month with my teeny tiny fridge. I’ve always wanted to try Once A Month Meals. The basic principle is preparing everything and then tossing it into the freezer to be cooked at a later date. There is no place to put all those freezer bags full of pre-chopped veggies and meats. I was dreaming about saving time by meal prepping this way. Not going to happen. My current freezer space is a joke! There is no way I could more that 3 chickens in there. Forget about making ice-cream; the only way I’d be able to fit the base in there is to make sure we’re almost starving (but hey, we can have ice-cream...tomorrow per the ice cream maker’s manufacturer’s instruction)

Large refrigerators are expensive. They are expensive to purchase and expensive to run. They are also expensive to fill up. Do you have a husband who loves those artisan chocolates? One day he tells me that he feels sad that his “treat tray” (it’s a whole shelf in our tiny fridge that has all his chocolates, cake and candy) looks empty. Can you imagine if we get a large fridge? It would seriously burn a hole in our pockets, stocking up on Ferrero Rocher’s and imported chocolates from Marks and Spencer.

So I guess at the moment, since I can’t make up my mind, I’m stuck shoving items around my teeny tiny fridge at home and gasping in horror when I find the juices of my marinated chicken just oozed all over *everything* in the fridge. Everything.